Re: Random things in your askbox. I sometimes can't sleep - brain too busy - and will mentally 'construct' a cozy 'dream' bed. It's usually a tiny cabin somewhere that it's raining, and the bedding is warm and fluffy, and it has a window that lets in the chilly air and the sound of the rain, but not the actual rain. I then try to picture myself curled up in it; the smell of the air and the sounds coming in with the rain. Usually works, or at least helps. D'you have any tricks/visualizations?
Beautiful. Personally, I have an awful time trying to get to sleep most nights, either because Iâm a night owl and itâs too early, my brain wonât shut up, or so forth.
Two things tend to work for me ⌠One is that I have a little humidifier that I often use that sits on my nightstand. Itâs shaped like an owl, and it trickles as it mists, and the two sounds combined help keep my ears distracted, and I can often pretend itâs rain and concentrate on that until I drift off.
My other trick is telling myself stories ⌠As I said, my brain is often too loud, thinking too many random things at once. To focus and relax, I start creating a very neutral story, something that I just keep simplifying and simplifying, or I start concentrating less and less on a tale and more on the vague details until Iâm finally under. For instance it might go something like this: It starts with going to lunch with an old friend, someone Iâve just seen or havenât thought about in a while. We walk and talk about old times.  We enter a restaurant and the restaurant is old and dark, and we sit at a table with a cloth that is very white, and there are two plates, and glasses and thereâs murmuring in the background and zzzzzzzz âŚ
Sometimes it will kickstart into lucid dreaming and then lead into actual dreaming, but often it just fades away. I will occasionally fantasise as well, but that doesnât help me sleep in the slightest, most of the time ⌠*cough* >_>;
